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An Interview with Ken Melrose, Toro Company's former CEO: Does faith go to work with you? And if it does, what does it look like? Toro Company’s former CEO, Ken Melrose , answers with a book on servant leadership. Ken’s faith at work showed up in his spirit of service...Read more +

Ray left teaching at age forty to attend graduate school. Money was tight, and he worked part-time at the city’s baseball stadium. Ray had twice pitched his team to the College World Series championship, but now picking up trash and cleaning mounds had little to do with his past glories...Read more +

The most important decisions I make as a leader are how I treat people. You know, we’re a company, we’re here to make a profit, we’re here to do good work, but really it has to do with relationships.Read more +

Ben had a job, but two other people on his work team got the perks. And that bugged Ben. So he made up his mind to complain. “Boss,” he said, “Jacob and Sharon get upgrades on flights, upgrades on hotels, upgrades on cars. What gives?” Fortunately for Ben, his manager...Read more +

The essence of business is understanding how to balance; you have a responsibility to your customers, to your employees, and to your investors, and there's often a tension between those. It's managing that tension that is the core of management.Read more +

I’ve been wrestling lately with this whole idea of vision. Or perhaps more accurately, with the lack thereof. And it’s odd because several years ago, I delivered a speech in Toastmasters on this very subject. I began by quoting the familiar proverb, “Without vision the people perish.” Advice from the...Read more +

My senior year of college I was named as editor of the student newspaper. I couldn’t believe it. I would oversee about 70 to 80 other students and the five-day production of the newspaper. I didn’t sleep much that year. I dreamed of horrible things happening: that we’d print a...Read more +

60 Seconds to Significance

Daily Reflection From Laity Lodge

Getting Out of Debt

There are multiple ways to translate the word debts in the Lord’s Prayer, so we’ve devoted three reflections to that word. First, we considered sin which means not being in...Read more +

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